FReeper Canteen ~ Military Short Speak ~ August 8, 2005

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Acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations that aren't generally used in the "civilian world."

What is an acronym? It is a word created from the first letter of a series of other words. It is spoken as one word. 

What is an initialism? It is a word created from the first letter of a series of other words, but each letter is spoken separately. 

What is an abbreviation? It is a shortened version of a word. 

What is Short Speak? It is any and all of the above.

Want to know what  they are talking about?  Read on...

R, part 2

RAAWS  radar altimeter and altitude warning system

RAB  Readiness Assessment Board (USAF)

RABFAC  radar beacon forward air controller

RAC  risk assessment code

RACE  restoration of aircraft to combat effectively

 

RACES  Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services

 

Rack  Bed - usually bunk beds

 

 

RACO  rear area combat operations

RACOMS  rapid combat mapping service

 

RACON  radar beacon

 

RAD  Take your pick:

¹radiation absorbed dose, ²random access data, ³random access disk, ⁴rapid access disk [computer], ⁵rapid application development, ⁶required availability data, ⁷requirements action document (USAF), ⁸request for authority to develop (an international agreement), ⁹required availability date, ¹⁰[AR 310-50] regional accountable depot, ¹¹[AR 310-50] return to active duty

 

RAD/hr  rads per hour

rada  radioactive

 

RADAR  radio detection and ranging  (also radar)

 

Radar Advisory  The term used to indicate that the provision of advise and info is based on radar information

 

Radar Altimetry Area  A large and comparatively level terrain area with a defined elevation which can be used in determining the altitude of ABN EQPT by the use of radar.

Radar Altitude Control Mode  In an automatic flight control system, a control mode in which the height of an aircraft is maintained by reference to signals from a radar altimeter.

 

Radar fire  Gunfire aimed at a target which is tracked by radar.

 

Radar Guardship  Any ship which has been assigned the task by the officer in tactical command of maintaining the radar watch

 

RADAREXREP  radar exploitation report

Radar Reconnaissance  Reconaissance by means of radar to obtain info on enemy activity and to determine the nature of the terrain

 

RADAY  radio day

 

RADBN  radio battalion (USMC)

 

RADC  Rome Air Development Center (USAF) at Griffis AFB

 

Today's Field Trip:   USS Carl Vinson

 

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August 8, 2005

What We Cannot Lose

Read:
Psalm 92:12-15

Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you. —Isaiah 46:4

Bible In One Year: Jeremiah 9-12

Years ago I heard about an elderly gentleman who was suffering from the first stages of dementia. He lamented the fact that he often forgot about God. "Don't you worry," said a good friend, "He will never forget you."

Growing old is perhaps the hardest task we have to face in this life. As the saying goes, "Getting old is not for sissies."

Mainly, growing old is about losses. We devote most of our early life to acquiring things, but they are merely things we will lose as we age. We lose our strength, our looks, our friends, our job. We may lose our wealth, our home, our health, our spouse, our independence, and perhaps the greatest loss of all, our sense of dignity and self-worth.

But there is one thing that you and I will never lose—the love of God. "Even to your old age, I am He," God said to the prophet, "and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you" (Isaiah 46:4).

"The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree," wrote the songwriter (Psalm 92:12). "Those who are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age" (vv.13-14). —David Roper

Jesus loves me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow;
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him. —Warner

God's love never grows old.

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